Our Correspondent Raikot April 13 The Raikot police have solved a blind murder case of a peasant and a dairy farmer of Barundi village Rajinder Singh who was brutally murdered on the outskirts of the village during the wee hours on March 23. A police team led by Raikot DSP Sukhnaj Singh and Sadar SHO Ajaib Singh has arrested all five accused from various places. The accused close relatives of the deceased have been identified as Harwinder Singh of Barundi (paternal uncle) Amandeep Singh Manpreet Singh (both cousins and residents of Barundi village) Gurwinder Singh of Nanakpur Jagera (cousin) and Gursewak Singh alias Guri of Rattangarh village. Old rivalry due to strained family relations and suspicion about use of black magic by Rajinder against his first cousins was cited to be the reason behind the murder. The SSP Ludhiana (Rural) Charanjit Singh Sohal said the Raikot Sadar police supervised by DSP Sukhnaj Singh and SHO Ajaib Singh had solved the blind murder of Rajinder on the basis of intensive investigation conducted under the guidance of SP (PBI) Rajveer Singh. Investigations revealed that the accused had conspired to kill Rajinder during a meeting held at the residence of Harwinder Singh on the intervening night of March 22 and 23. With an intent to produce alibi in their favour Harwinder and his elder son Amandeep Singh left the area and spent the night with one of their relatives on the fateful day while the other three accused intercepted Rajinder by sprinkling chili powder in his eyes when he left home for his dairy farm early in the morning on March 23. The trio then attacked the victim with two swords and a wooden log. Appreciating the role played by police personnel at the Circle Raikot police in cracking the case the SSP said the main conspirator Harwinder and his sons had planned the murder in such a way that it could have remained untraced. “It was on the basis of information collected from sources at the village that we came to know about differences between the two families. Having zeroed in on the daily routine of the family of Harwinder the investigating team identified the other accused and nabbed all” Sohal said. Another case solved 1 held The Ludhiana rural police claimed to have solved a blind murder of an unknown person whose mutilated body was found from a sewerage drain in Jagraon over two months ago. The deceased was identified as Galib Hussain of Bighashwari in Bihar. He was residing at the Nalkian Wala Chowk area in Jagraon. The accused identified as Javed of Jamia Nagar in Shaheen Bagh Delhi was arrested. Ludhiana (rural) SSP Charanjit Singh Sohal said police officials led by DSP Jatinder Pal Singh and chief officer of police station Jagraon Gaganpreet Singh had identified the accused on the basis of investigation and arrested him recently. Preliminary investigation revealed that Galib was an occultist and Javed had brought one of his woman friends to the former for treatment. Later Javed suspected that Galib had developed an illicit relationship with the woman following which he killed the victim by hitting him with a brick. On February 11 sanitation workers found the body of the deceased from a bag that was stuck in a sewer drain.

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